On This Day — June 16

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on June 16.

• 2019: Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.
• 2016: Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public.
• 2015: American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.
• 2013: A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami.
• 2012: China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module.

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